Franco-German Painter, Author, and Academic

Born in West-Berlin during the cold war, Jacqueline studied in Montpellier, Cambridge, and Paris, and graduated from the Sorbonne with a thesis in contemporary history and international relations.

Following a year as a volunteer with an NGO in rural Indonesia, she joined the editorial staff of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She was appointed the FAZ’s Eastern Europe correspondent in 1987, during which time she also covered the transformation of the former East Germany.

In 1997, Jacqueline moved to Paris, where she worked first as a correspondent for Die Zeit and later ran the European program of the public radio France Culture.

In parallel, she continued to pursue her academic interests — teaching at Sciences Po Paris, doing research, and publishing a number of books on European history and culture in French and German

These days, Jacqueline paints and writes with equal enthusiasm. Her next book, a biography, is due to be published in 2024.

• Eastern Europe Correspondent at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1987-1992)

• Correspondent at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin (1993-1997)

• Paris bureau chief at Die Zeit (1997-2002)

• Producer, presenter and writer at France Culture (2002-2013)

• Paris bureau chief for the Tamedia Group (2004-2010)

• Managing Director at KekstCNC in Paris and Berlin (2013-2022)

• Freelance author at Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Images: Professional IDs| Travelling Moldova | Work in an International Management Consultancy

• Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur

• Internationaler Publizistik-Preis

• Joseph-Roth-Preis

• Sonderpreis des deutsch-französischen Kulturrats

• Prix de l’initiative européenne

Images: Legion of honor | With Vladimir Minac in Bratislava